“The data indicate that just before the eyes make their next jump (saccade), your nonconscious attention scans the next chunk, selects a meaty word for your center of gaze to light on (a word like murder, not a word like indeed), and guides the eye movement accordingly.”
― Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
― Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
“But some closeness of status, such as the relation of parent to child or the relation of marriage, can produce the love of self-devotion where the potentialities of the loved object are felt passionately as a claim that it find itself in a friendly Universe.”
― Adventures of Ideas
― Adventures of Ideas
“Instead of linking an active life and an affirmative thinking, thought gives itself the task of judging life, opposing to it supposedly higher values, measuring it against these values, restricting and condemning it. And at the same time that thought thus becomes negative, life depreciates, ceases to be active, is reduced to its weakest forms, to sickly forms that are alone compatible with the so-caIled higher values. It is the triumph of "reaction" over active Iife and of negation over affirmative thought.”
― Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
― Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
“the masculinizing of the gonads (making testes, penis, and prostate) occurs before the masculinizing of the brain. Owing to variability in the pathways controlled by genes and the interactions among the items in the suite of neurochemicals, sometimes the masculinizing of the brain does not follow the typical path and may be incomplete in various ways. You could have male genitalia and a female brain.”
― Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
― Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain
“Mas se o mundo é um número de magia, deve também haver um ilusionista. Espero poder vir a desmascará-lo, mas não é fácil descobrir um truque, quando o ilusionista nem sequer vem ao palco.”
― The Solitaire Mystery
― The Solitaire Mystery
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